Flying-machine.



0. E. SMITH. FLYING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.27, 1912.

Patented May 20, 1913.

IN1/ENTOR, Chale rlflmi 1 '0 vi ATTORNEY.

11 Ram 9 1 WITNESSES C. E. SMITH.

FLYING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.27, 1912.

Patented May 20, 1913 3 SHEETS-SHEET 2 INVENTOI? HTORNEY G. E. SMITH.

FLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 41mm, 1912.

Patented May 20, 1913.

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w .n mp JR V m M] 4 CHARLES E. SMITH, OF PAILERSON, NEW JERSEY.

FLYING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 27, 1912.

Patelnted May 20, 1913. Serial No. 693,625.

To all whom it may concern 1 run when traveling over the ground.

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flying-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to flying machines and it consists in certain improvements in flying machines of the kind set forth in my previous applications for U. S. Letters Patentfiled June 17th, 1910, and April 29th, 1911.

The invention will be found fully illus trated in the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved machine; Fig. 2 a front elevation thereof; Fig. 3 a. horizontal sectional view; Fig. 4 plan view of oneof the main planes; Fig. 5 a side elevatim cf thesaid planes and of the means for operating minor pivotally movable planes forming lateral extensions of the main plane; F ig. 6 shows a part of the aforesaid means in front elevation; Fig. 7 is a view partly in front elevation and partly in section of one of the main planes; Figs. 7*, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are detail views of the framework, Fig. 9 being a transverse sectional. view of Fig. 8, and Fig. 11 a sectional. view on the line a2-.c of Fig. 10; and, Fig. 12 is a sectional view of one of the wheels on which the machine may a is an elongated hollow body forming a carrier for the aviator, beingin side elevation rather bluntly tapering at its forward end (left hand and in Fig. 1:) and sharply tapering at its rear end.

When. the machine rests on a surface, water or land, it is designed to be; supported by the wheels 7) and c, the detail construction of one of which is shown in Fig. 12 where a is a hub against the opposite ends of which are secured, by the nuts (5 screwed onto threaded portions of. the trunnions e for the wheel, the concavq-convex disks f having their concave sides facing inwardly and where g is a peripherally grooved felly to which the opposite sides of said disks are secured in such manner as to give thewhole an air-tight chamber construction; It is a resilient tire fitted into the groove of the folly, Allthe wheels Z) and preferablyhave the same construction. the wheel 0 be,

ing however smaller thzhethe two iorward wheels 3) and being preferably pivoted on a vertical axis, as shown.

The wheels 7; are housed in recesses 2 formed in the lateral projections j at the front part of the body a, said portions being rounded at the front and having their rear walls converging gradually toward the planes of the sides of the body, which sides are generally parallel from and to end of said body.

In, Z, m, n and 0 are various blades suitably arranged to swing on pivots and provided with suitable operating means, not shown, whereby to change the course of the machine or control the same according to different conditions of wind pressure and the like.

There are preferably two main supporting planes 72 provided, being disposed above the body, one in advance of the other. The construction of each of these planes and the manner in which they are attached to this body will now be described, reference being had to only one: i 1

In Figs. 7 to l1, designates one of two arched frames, each of which consists of outer sections of pipe coupled together in the form of an arch and reinforced by inner sections of smaller pi es, as shown and as fully explained in my application aforesaid filed April 29th, 1911. The two frames 9 are suitably secured upon the body a as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Each plane is made up of a series of sections arranged one after the other crosswise of the machine. Each section is hollow, and

since the several sections are alincd witheach other the whole plane is hollow, though of flattened form, tapering at the forward and rear ends. The forward end of each plane as shown in Fig. ficis curved downwardly, the rest of the ilane being substantially straight, though inclined slightly rearwardly.

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Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a'plane for a flying machine, a series of unitary plane-sections arranged in the same geometric plane, each plane-section having an individual frame and individual upper and lower sheet-like members attached respectively to the upper and lower sides of said frame, and means, extending between the upper and lower sheet-like members of said planesections, for securing said plane-sections rigidly together, substantially as described.

'2. In' a plane for a flying machine, a series of unitary plane-sections arranged in the same geometric plane, each plane-section having an individual frame and two transverse tubular members forming parts of said frame and an individual sheet-like member attached to said frame, the tubular members (when the same are of a t pe requiring radi-' of the several planesections being alined with each and means, penetrating the several tubular members of said plane-sections,

for securing said plane-sections rigidly together, substantially as described.

3. In a plane for a flying machine, a series of unitary plane-sections arranged in the same geometric plane, each plane-section having an individual frame and two transverse tubular members forming arts of said frame and an individual sheet ike member attached to said frame, the tubular members of the several plane-sectionsbeingoalined with each, and means, including an elongated'stitiening structure penetrating the several tubular members of said plane-sec-' tions, for securing said plane-sections rigidly together, substantially as described.

4. In combination, a horizontal plane, a structure to be carried thereby havin bosses 7 projecting therefrom, and means or sus- 5b taining said structure from the plane including upper and lower sets of stay-rods, jointmembers respectively alined with the stayrods of one set and received by said b M I a transverse pin penetrating each of the lit ter stay-rods and corresponding joint mem her, said pin being movable from a POSitiQl exterior of, to a position within, the corne sponding boss upon longitudinal movement ofthe stay-rod toward the boss, and means, engaging said structure and attached to the joint member, for drawing said stay-rod relatively toward the boss, substantially as described.

In combination, with the hollow carrier, means attached to the carrier for su porting the J1me comprising a hollowsulistantially horizontal plane comprising upper and lowe1' sheet-like members converging together at, the front and, rear and arranged above the carrier, a motor arranged-in the carrier, propellers, rotary shafts carrying the3 propellers and journaled in'said plane 'be. tween the members thereof; and means for r transmitting power from the motor t'o said 86*?) shafts, said means'being inclos'ed within the carrier and the plane, substantially as described.

6. In. combination, with a hollow carrier, planiform supporting 'means therefor attached thereto, an upwardly projectingfurb nel extending from the carrier, and a'casing tapering forwardly and rearwardly, inclosing the funnel, substantially as described.

7. In combination, with a hollow carrier, planiform supportingmeans therefor attached thereto, an upwardly projecting funnel extending from the carrier, a casing, tag pering forwardly and rearwardly,inclosing the funnel. propelling means, a motor ar; ranged in the carrier. and a radiator for th motor extending around the casing, sub stantially as described.

I In testimony whereof I afiix my signaturwin presence of two witnesses; I

CHARLES E. SNIITH.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. Srnwano, WM. D. BELL. 

